The fact that we're building toward a full moon Thursday that will act to prompt another wave of white shrimp to leave nurseries in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta could create a perfect storm of excellent fishing conditions beginning this weekend and continuing through most of next week. Full story »

Anson expressed Alabama's hopes that within the time before sector separation sunsets that the implementation of a new regional management regime for red snapper would be able to provide the same benefits to charter captains as sector separation. Full story »

I received a couple of reliable reports Thursday from guys who know their way around the Delta that the fishing remains slow. One fisherman hit 18 spots and caught one fish total - a barely legal trout. The other was skunked. Full story »

"Hunting and fishing are huge industries in the state and country. A lot of people don't understand or realize that excise taxes (on hunting and fishing equipment) fund the conservation department. It's a big deal. It's a positive economic impact for the state and we're trying to enshrine the right to hunt and fish for the future," he said. Full story »

Over the years, some oysters have been observed within the reef footprint, but they have not settled in large enough numbers to maintain high quality fish habitat and as such the reefs had degraded. Full story »

Much to the joy of fishermen but to the chagrin of hunters who hoped to take advantage of the expected moisture and rushed to get their food plots planted, the clouds basically stalled offshore. Full story »

Mississippi's Department of Marine Resources Executive Director Jamie Miller announced Friday that state water will open to red snapper fishing every weekend in October and the first weekend in November. Full story »

We haven't mentioned flooding's potential impacts on fishing since about June, but this system expected to roll out of the Gulf and dump up to 6 inches of rain on some places could make the rivers jump. Full story »

Anyone using a recreational castnet to catch shrimp from a boat in an area open to commercial shrimping must have an Alabama saltwater fishing license and a $16 recreational boat shrimping license. Full story »

Some of the high-pitch "chittering" discussions turn surprisingly loud and intense when two or more of the equally territorial eighth-ounce birds try to feed from the same fluid-loaded plastic red flower. Full story »

Bass-fishing guide Wayne Miller has already noted that surface water temperature readings in lakes and creeks in the middle of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta have dropped from the low 90s into the mid-80s. Full story »

The males, one estimated at 1,200 pounds and the other at 200 pounds heavier, became the ninth and 10 manatees tagged in Alabama waters since the very first was caught and outfitted with a similar tag five years ago on the lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Full story »

"Because of how they live and their place in the Delta's ecosystem, alligators are a prime indicator of its health. The Delta really is a diverse nursery ground for all of the fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Any negative impact on these juveniles is potentially a really bad thing." Full story »

If a hunter kills a brown-collared deer, they are asked to contact someone in their local conservation department district office or call the phone number on the collar so AU researchers can retrieve it and put it on another animal after the season is over. Full story »

Inshore guide Yano Serra said the biggest change he's seen over the past few weeks is the arrival in Mississippi Sound of nice schools of larger white trout averaging about a pound a piece. Full story »